Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were lucky. Last week Mr. & Mrs. Sybrand van der Dussen arrived in New York with their eleven children. Sturdy Dutch burghers from Rotterdam, they had a somewhat unnerving time at LaGuardia Airport. They were surrounded by newsmen, and two-year-old Jacobus almost got tangled in a huge electric fan. They were bound for Los Angeles and a brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand...
Being the only girl among so many men is a lot of fun, coos Miss Cushner. "They're always so obliging. Why, whenever I get lost in this huge place, I just stand and look helpless, and someone always comes over to give me a hand...
...down the quayside, as unloading began, huge cranes bit into the piles of U.S. goods flowing into Argentina. So great was the jam of U.S. crates that port authorities last week ordered freighters following the Mormacwave to lie in the roadstead till the docks were partly cleared...
...attendant himself, first at a private institution and then at a huge VA mental hospital, Maine was so horrified at the treatment of patients that his own inner conflicts came to seem insignificant. He finally blamed the universal system of neglect less on attendants than on a public so indifferent that it would allow hospitals to be dark closets for storing the mental wreckage of modern civilization. When he quit his attendant's job to write a book, Maine was plenty mad-but not in a medical sense...
...leaving the nonvoting stock to the tax-free Ford Foundation, the company got around paying the huge inheritance taxes on it. They will have to pay only on the voting stock. Total estate taxes may run as high as $66,000,000. But most automen thought the company had the cash on hand to pay. No valuation was put on the estate. The guesses ran from $200,000,000 to $700,000,000. There was not much doubt that the Ford Foundation, with assets of over $200,000,000. is the wealthiest private charitable organization in the world...